FreeIPA server in Docker
This repository contains the Dockerfile and associated assets for building a FreeIPA server Docker image from the official yum repo.
Install docker 1.10+:
yum install -y docker
Start the service:
systemctl start docker
To build the image, run in the root of the repository:
docker build -t freeipa-server .
The repository contains multiple Dockerfiles for various
operating systems. Use -f option to docker build to pick
different than default target.
Create directory which will hold the server data:
mkdir /var/lib/ipa-data
On SELinux enabled systems,
setsebool -P container_manage_cgroup 1
might be needed to enable running systemd in the containers.
You then run the container with
docker run --name freeipa-server-container -ti \
-h ipa.example.test \
-v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro \
--tmpfs /run --tmpfs /tmp \
-v /var/lib/ipa-data:/data:Z freeipa-server [ opts ]
Standard ipa-server-install will be started and you can configure
the server. The docker run invocation also accepts command line
parameters that will be passed to ipa-server-install, so
unattended invocation is possible. Optionally, you can put into the
directory mounted into /data (/var/lib/ipa-data in this example) a file
ipa-server-install-options
with command line parameters to ipa-server-install command, for example
--realm=EXAMPLE.TEST
--ds-password=The-directory-server-password
--admin-password=The-admin-password
and these options will also be used as parameters to ipa-server-install.
If you want to instruct the container to create a replica, specify the
command in the docker run parameters:
docker run --name freeipa-server-container -ti \
-h ipa.example.test \
-v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro \
--tmpfs /run --tmpfs /tmp \
-v /var/lib/ipa-data:/data:Z \
freeipa-server ipa-replica-install [ opts ]
The options will be passed to ipa-replica-install in the container.
You can also put options to file
ipa-replica-install-options
in the directory mounted to /data to this directory, for example with
--password=The-directory-server-password
--admin-password=The-admin-password
If your setup is of Domain Level < 1, GPG-encrypted replica information file is also needed in the directory mounted to /data.
If the above commands fail with error about invalid value for flag -v and bad format for volumes, run
chcon -t svirt_sandbox_file_t /var/lib/ipa-data
or use semanage fcontext and restorecon, and use -v option without the :Z part.
The option --name assigns the container a name that can be used
later with docker start, docker stop and other commands.
Command ipa-server-install is invoked non-interactively the first
time the container is run.
The -ti parameters are optional and are used for get a terminal,
for interactive configuration sessions.
The container can the be started and stopped:
docker stop freeipa-server-container
docker start -ai freeipa-server-container
If you want to use the FreeIPA server not just from the host
where it is running but from external machines as well, you
might want to use the -p options to make the services accessible
externally. You will then likely want to also specify the
IPA_SERVER_IP environment variable via the -e option to
define what IP address should the server put to DNS as its
address. Starting the server would then be
docker run -e IPA_SERVER_IP=10.12.0.98 -p 53:53/udp -p 53:53 \
-p 80:80 -p 443:443 -p 389:389 -p 636:636 -p 88:88 -p 464:464 \
-p 88:88/udp -p 464:464/udp -p 123:123/udp -p 7389:7389 \
-p 9443:9443 -p 9444:9444 -p 9445:9445 ...
If you have existing container with data volume, it should be safe to shut it down and run new one based on newer image, with the same data directory bind-mounted to /data. The container will detect that it is running with data produced by different image and attempt to upgrade the configuration and data. Of course, keeping backup of the data directory for cases when the upgrade process fails is recommended.
Configuring and running with atomic
On platforms with atomic command available, the container can be
configured with
atomic install [ --name $THE_NAME ] freeipa-server \
[ keywords for docker operation ] \
[ ipa-server-install | ipa-replica-install ] \
[ opts ]
The keywords for docker operations are:
hostname $IPA_SERVER_HOSTNAME - docker run -h $IPA_SERVER_HOSTNAME
net-host - docker run --net=host, also uses host's hostname
publish - docker run -p 443:443 ... ; publish all ports of the IPA
container on host's interfaces
cap-add $CAPABILITY - docker run --cap-add=$CAPABILITY
The container will use /var/lib/$THE_NAME to store the configuration and data. It the gets started with
atomic run [ --name $THE_NAME ] freeipa-server
Version 1.12 of atomic is needed.
IPA-enrolled client in Docker
There are multiple *-client branches named after OS they are
based on. Check out the branch you prefer and in the root of the
repository, run:
docker build -t freeipa-client .
To run the client container, run it with correctly set DNS and hostname in the IPA domain, or you can link it to the freeipa-server container directly:
docker run --privileged --link freeipa-server-container:ipa \
-e PASSWORD=Secret123 -ti freeipa-client
The first time this container runs, it invokes ipa-client-install
with the given admin password.
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